The inactives are out for today's game at Lambeau Field between the Tennessee Titans and the Green Bay Packers, and there's some unexpected bad news for the Titans. First, the inactives:

GREEN BAY PACKERS: TE Tom Crabtree, RB Alex Green, WR Jordy Nelson, RB James Starks, CB Charles Woodson, DE C.J. Wilson, DE Jerel Worthy

TENNESSEE TITANS: C Kevin Matthews, LB Colin McCarthy, CB Ryan Mouton, OT Mike Otto, QB Rusty Smith, DE Scott Solomon, WR Kendall Wright

The big news for the Titans is Mike Otto is out with an illness after not being listed in Friday's Official Injury Report. McCarthy practiced all week and it was thought he might be able to return to practice. Wright, Solomon, and Mouton were all questionable as well. Daman William returns to action with the same OIR designation. With Otto out, Byron Stingily is listed as the starter at right tackle. Fernando Velasco apparently will move back to center, with Mitch Petrus getting the start at left guard. Tim Shaw and Will Witherspoon will presumably play once again in McCarthy's place. Daniel Baldridge makes his Titans debut. For the Packers, Green and Worthy were listed as questionable, while the other five players are out. With Green and Starks out, Ryan Grant gets the start at running back. He'll probably split time with DuJuan Harris.

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I'm glad to be joined for this week's Q&A by Aaron Nagler. Aaron is the co-founder of the fine Packers blog CheeseheadTV and also writes for Bleacher Report. You can also follow his comments on the Packers, the NFL, and everything else under the sun on Twitter.

Total Titans: Aaron Rodgers' level of play last year was, I think, probably the greatest I've ever seen any quarterback play in NFL history. This year, he's still played pretty well (currently ranked third in both DVOA and DYAR by Football Outsiders), but hasn't been as soul-crushingly dominant. What's parts of his game are still working, and what's not working as well?

I managed to make it through the all-22 of Monday night's game over the Jets. Rather than highlight a particular player, as I've done in the past, this post instead is a combination of various notes and observations from watching each individual play, most of them a number of times.

1. I'm going to defray discussion of Jake Locker until a separate post, which should run tomorrow or Saturday. I know, he's a large part of the offense, and he's important. I'm not going to go into great breakdowns of every play, but I'll get into him later.

2. I know he got hurt on the play, but it was very nice to see Kendall Wright separate deep on Antonio Cromartie on the play where he got injured in the fourth quarter. Maybe Cromartie had his eyes on the backfield on Locker's movement, but Wright ran by him and was open deep. I said after the draft his bad 40 was a bad reason to dislike the pick, but hadn't really seen him separate deep. He did on that play.

3. Writing about Chris Johnson is kind of boring. When the blocking is bad, he doesn't gain many yards. When the blocking is good, he can gain yards. When somebody blows a gap, he can get the edge on a slower safety, like he did on Yeremiah Bell on his long touchdown. Aside from the play where he outran Bell, he didn't do much to make defenders miss. I didn't keep track of his yards after contact, but it wouldn't shock me if 115 of his 122 yards came before contact. That's probably a bit high, but does indicate how little yardage he made on his own. I continue to think paying $10 million next year for that kind of productivity is completely insane, not that I expect the Titans to cut him.

It's been over four years since the Titans have faced the Packers in a competitive game, one the Titans won in overtime, and things have changed for both teams. We're back to doing our weekly Q&A, this time with the fine Packers blog. Cheesehead TV. If you have any questions you'd like me to include, post them in the comments section below and I'll pass them along.

The NFL this season has begun keeping track of snap counts on a weekly basis and releasing that information to the media. Here's now the Titans lined up in the Week 15 Monday Night Football victory over the New York Jets.

Offense (59 total)
QB: Jake Locker 59
RB/FB: Chris Johnson 58, Quinn Johnson 21, Jamie Harper 1
TE: Craig Stevens 59, Taylor Thompson 19
WR: Kenny Britt 52, Nate Washington 44, Kendall Wright 22, Michael Preston 15, Lavelle Hawkins 4
OL: Deuce Lutui 59, Mike Otto 59, Michael Roos 59, Fernando Velasco 59, Kyle DeVan 48, Kevin Matthews 11

Defense (67 total)
DE: Derrick Morgan 60, Kamerion Wimbley 53, Jarius Wynn 20
DT: Sen'Derrick Marks 53, Jurrell Casey 49, Mike Martin 14, DaJohn Harris 12, Karl Klug 3
LB: Zach Brown 63, Akeem Ayers 50, Tim Shaw 47, Will Witherspoon 22
CB: Jason McCourty 67, Alterraun Verner 67, Coty Sensabaugh 20
S: Michael Griffin 67, Jordan Babineaux 51, Al Afalava 19

Patrick Bailey, Brandon Barden, Beau Brinkley, Tommie Campbell, Ryan Mouton, Darius Reynaud, Byron Stingily, and Tracy Wilson each only appeared on special teams. Matt Hasselbeck did not appear in the game.

Comments: 

Well, there's something to be said about a game like this one, that's for sure. The Tennessee Titans didn't do much right in their late-season prime time showing, but did just enough for eke out a 14-10 win over a New York Jets squad that earned their playoff elimination in a game filled with error after error, many of them by the New York Jets offense.

The first half lived up the billing you'd expect from a laughably bad Jets offense and a bad Titans team. The Titans got to their kryptonite, the red zone, on the opening drive, but a bad Jake Locker decision on a third down option call and a blocked field goal kept them off the scoreboard. The Jets then drove the field, but unforced errors on second and third down held them to a field goal. Chris Johnson had the one good play of the first half, taking advantage of the Jets blowing a gap to romp 94 yards for a score and a 7-3 lead that would last until late in the third quarter.

After a shanked Brett Kern punt when the Titans did nothing after being backed up put the Jets at the 35, a tight end burned the Titans again as Mark Sanchez found Jeff Cumberland over a seemingly-oblivious Tim Shaw for a 10-7 lead. For one of the few times in the game, though, Jake Locker looked like a competent quarterback on the ensuing drive, finding first Michael Preston, then Nate Washington, and finally Kendall Wright. In the red zone, Locker had his own number called on a QB sweep, and 13 yards later the Titans had a 14-10 lead.

After more Mark Sanchez fail, including his third interception of the night, a long Jets drive, including a third-down conversion on a roughing the passer call on Will Witherspoon, made it inside the Titans 25 before Sanchez just chucked another ball into coverage. The Titans ran three times into the line and punted, then another Kern punt while backed up gave the Jets great field position at the Titans 25. One bad shotgun snap later, though, Zach Brown had the ball and Jake Locker was taking a knee to end the game.

In terms of ugly games, this was one. Aside from CJ's big run and a couple throws on the second scoring drive, the Titans did very little right on offensive. CJ struggled to find yardage, and the Titans at times rightly showed very little trust in Locker's ability to throw the football, calling more designed runs. The Jets had intermittent success running between the tackles, but at crucial times just had Sanchez throw the ball with disastrous results. It takes a lot to get Michael Griffin an interception, as I've chronicled here in the past, but he had two tonight. in the end, a win is a win is a win, and while losing would have been better for draft position for a team with little to accomplish this year, I'll take it.

More on the train wreck later this week.